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New: Welfare Futures seminar series
The seminar series ‘Welfare Futures’ will start in October. This series consists of lectures by ethnographers researching changes in welfare systems, both in Europe and beyond. The series asks: How are welfare futures remade in the search for new forms of welfare governance and provision against the background of growing precarity and spiraling needs? Who steps up when established welfare actors are unable to provide answers to human emergencies? And what welfare futures are made, and for who, in programs that claim to do welfare differently?
Read moreUtopia from Within play back
Explore the panel discussion on redefining welfare in a utopian context, entitled 'Utopia from Within'. Scholars looked at different welfare experiments around the world, examining how these initiatives are reshaping the dynamics between state, society and citizens in different cities. Do these experiments perpetuate or transcend current social hierarchies? And what insights do they offer into our potential political trajectories?
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